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SUMMARY:Ron Granieri
DESCRIPTION:For Video playback Part 1\, click\n HERE \nFor Video playback\, Part 2\, click\nHERE \nEurope: Old Continent\, New Challenges-Post Election EU\nSponsored by Sam and Rosie DeWald\nRon Granieri is the Executive Director of Foreign Policy Research Institute’s (FPRI) Center for the Study of America and the West\, Editor of the Center’s E-publication The American Review of Books\, Blogs\, and Bull\, and Host of Geopolitics with Granieri\, a monthly series of events for FPRI Members.  He is a specialist in Contemporary German and International History with degrees from both Harvard and the University of Chicago. He is the recipient of a Federal Chancellor Scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and is a member in the American Council on Germany’s Young Leader Program. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania\, Temple University\, Syracuse University\, Furman University\, and the University of Tubingen. He is the author of The Ambivalent Alliance: Konrad Adenauer\, the CDU/CSU\, and the West\, 1949-1966 (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books\, 2003)\, and is currently completing a book entitled: The Fall and Rise of German Christian Democracy\, From Detente to Reunification\, for Oxford University Press.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/ron-granieri/
LOCATION:PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ambassador Charles Ray
DESCRIPTION:The Need for a Stronger Diplomatic Force – American Diplomacy at Risk\nCharles A. Ray is a retired Foreign Service Officer who served 30 years in the US Foreign Service\, and before that\, 20 years in the US Army. During his army service\, including two tours in Vietnam\, he served in Military Intelligence\, Special Operations\, and Public Affairs\, with tours of duty in Germany\, Korea\, Vietnam\, and Panama\, as well as posts throughout the U.S.\, and retired in 1982 with the rank of Major. \nDuring 30 years in the Foreign Service\, he was posted to China\, Thailand\, Sierra Leone\, Vietnam\, Cambodia\, and Zimbabwe. His overseas assignments included service as Deputy Chief of Mission in Sierra Leone during that country’s transition to democratic rule\, he was the first US Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City\, Vietnam\, and was ambassador to Cambodia and Zimbabwe. From 2006 to 2009\, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for POW/Missing Personnel Affairs and Director of the Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office. \nSince retirement from public service\, he has been a full time freelance writer and consultant\, and is the author of more than 60 books of fiction and non-fiction\, including three books on leadership. He is a frequent blogger and contributor to several Internet news and content sites. Ray is also a photographer and artist\, and has worked as a journalist and artist for a number of publications in the US and abroad. During the late 70s he was editorial cartoonist for the Spring Lake (NC) News\, a weekly newspaper near Fort Bragg\, NC. He was the first chairman of the American Foreign Service Association’s Professionalism and Ethics Committee. He runs a workshop on professional writing for Rangel Scholars at Howard University each summer\, and has lectured at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute of Johns Hopkins University\, speaking on global hotspots and the History of American Diplomacy. He has also done consulting work for the Department of Defense on personnel recovery (working with the Angel Thunder PR exercise) and as an interagency subject matter expert during army unit pre-deployment training. \nRay is a member of the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA)\, the Association of Black American Ambassadors\, and the American Academy of Diplomacy. \nA native of Texas\, Ray now makes his home in North Potomac\, MD\, a suburb of Washington\, DC.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/ambassador-charles-ray/
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170509T200000
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SUMMARY:Dr. Jose Esparza
DESCRIPTION:The Global Challenge of Confronting Emerging Epidemics: From AIDS to Zika\, and Beyond\n  \nJosé Esparza is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the Institute of Human Virology\, University of Maryland School of Medicine. He is also the current President of the Global Virus Network (2016). From 2004 to 2014 he was Senior Advisor on HIV Vaccines and Vaccines at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle\, WA. From 1986 to 2004 he was with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) in Geneva\, Switzerland\, were he coordinated an international effort to develop HIV vaccines. From 1974 to 1985 he worked at the Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research (IVIC)\, becoming Professor of Virology and Chairman of Microbiology and Cell Biology. Esparza received his MD degree in Venezuela in 1968 and a PhD in Virology and Cell Biology from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston\, Texas\, in 1974. He has published over 185 scientific articles in medical virology\, vaccinology and HIV/AIDS. He is a member of the Venezuelan Academy of Medicine and serves in several international scientific advisory boards. He is also a vaccine consultant for several companies.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/dr-jose-esparza/
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SUMMARY:David Satter
DESCRIPTION:Putin and Russian Corruption \nSatter was born in Chicago. He graduated from the University of Chicago and from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar. From 1976 to 1982\, he was the Moscow correspondent of the Financial Times of London. He then became a special correspondent on Soviet affairs of The Wall Street Journal. He is currently a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and a fellow of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He has been a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a visiting professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. \nIn the 1990s\, Satter wrote extensively about post-Soviet Russia. In an article in The Wall Street Journal Europe\, April 2\, 1997\, he wrote: “When the Soviet Union fell… the moral impulse motivating the democratic movement had to become the basis of Russia’s political practices. The tragedy of the present situation is that Russian gangsters are cutting off this development before it has a chance to take root.” \nDavid Satter is the author of four non-fiction books about Russia\, It Was a Long Time Ago and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past (2011)\, Age of Delirium: the Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union (1996)\, Darkness at Dawn: the Rise of the Russian Criminal State (2003)\, and The Less You Know\,The Better You Sleep (2016).
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/david-satter/
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SUMMARY:Dr. Eric Trager
DESCRIPTION:Arab Fall: Why Egypt’s Tahrir Square Revolution Failed\nEric Trager\, the Esther K. Wagner Fellow at The Washington Institute\, is an expert on Egyptian politics and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. He was in Egypt during the 2011 anti-Mubarak revolts and returns frequently to conduct firsthand interviews with leaders in Egypt’s government\, military\, political parties\, media\, and civil society. His writings have appeared in numerous publications\, including the New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, Foreign Affairs\, the Atlantic\, and the New Republic. \nTrager is the author of Arab Fall: How the Muslim Brotherhood Won and Lost Egypt in 891 Days (Georgetown University Press\, 2016) which chronicles the precipitous rise to power of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood\, culminating in the election of President Mohamed Morsi in 2012\, and its sudden demise just a year later. The book also assesses the current state of Egyptian politics and the prospects for a reemergence of the Brotherhood. \nDr. Trager has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania\, where his doctoral research focused on Egyptian opposition parties. From 2006-2007\, he lived in Egypt as an Islamic Civilizations Fulbright fellow\, where he studied at the American University in Cairo and received his M.A. in Arabic studies with a concentration in Islamic studies. He served as a research assistant at The Washington Institute from 2005 to 2006 upon graduation from Harvard University with a degree in government and language citations in Arabic and Hebrew.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/dr-eric-trager/
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SUMMARY:Colonel Scott Sanborn\, USAWC
DESCRIPTION:Drones – Past\, Present and Future\nCOL Sanborn is qualified as both an Aviation and a Military Intelligence officer serving in a variety of assignments over the past 28 years. He has commanded at the company\, battalion and brigade level and held multiple staff positions including Chief of Staff of US Army Cyber Command. His Pentagon assignments include HQ\, Department of the Army G2\, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence\, and the Secretary of Defense’s Intelligence\, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Task Force. Mostly recently\, COL Sanborn served as the Chief of Staff of the Army Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security a national defense policy oriented think tank located in Washington\, DC. COL Sanborn’s deployment experience includes: operation DESERT SHIELD/STORM as an attack helicopter pilot with the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment; deployments to Albania and Hungary during the mid-1990s as the commander of a provisional/experimental Predator unmanned aerial system company in support of operations PROVIDE PROMISE\, DENY FLIGHT\, DELIBERATE FORCE\, and JOINT ENDEAVOR; and\, multiple deployments to South America in support of airborne ISR operations. COL Sanborn also commanded the 224th Military Intelligence Battalion (Aerial Exploitation) during a deployment to Iraq from 06-07 where his unit conducted manned and unmanned airborne ISR operations in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM.  From 2010-2012\, COL Sanborn commanded the US Army Air Operations Group\, where his unit was responsible for the global transport of the Army’s most senior leaders\, rotary wing transport of senior Defense Department leaders in the National Capital Region\, technical rescue engineer operations\, as well as the operation of Davison Army Airfield at Ft Belvoir\, VA and the Pentagon Heliport. From 2012-2014\, he served as the second Chief of Staff of US Army Cyber Command/Second Army as the command continued to evolve as the Army Service Component of US Cyber Command and the newly established Second Army. \nCOL Sanborn’s education includes a Bachelors of Science in Mathematics from the University of Iowa\, a Master of Science in Computer Resources and Information Management from Webster University (with honors)\, and a Master of Science in National Security Strategy from the National War College. He is a graduate of the US Army Command and General Staff College\, the US Army Military Intelligence Officer Adv  Course\, and the US Army Avn Officer Basic Course.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/colonel-scott-sanborn-usawc/
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SUMMARY:Dr. Randall Fegley
DESCRIPTION:Rwanda Rebuilding After Trauma\nA political historian at Pennsylvania State University’s Berks College\, Randall Fegley specializes in the study of mass trauma\, especially long-term conflicts\, gross human rights violations and prolonged disasters in Rwanda\, Equatorial Guinea\, Uganda\, South Sudan and Sudan. He lived\, taught and completed Ph.D. research in Sudan from 1980 to 1984 and has returned to work there and in other African countries numerous times. In November 2003\, he received Penn State Berks’ Beaver Community Service Award for restoring schools in war-torn Kajo Keji County\, South Sudan as part of a program of the Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem. He has been particularly active in the Sudan Studies Association\, the leading scholarly organization on Sudan. Host of the SSA’s 22nd annual conference in May 2002 and a member of the association’s board from 2003 to 2007\, he has also served as the organization’s president and executive director. As the coordinator of Penn State’s four-year degree program in Global Studies\, he set up an internship program in Rwanda. His latest book is A History of Rwandan Identity and Trauma: The Mythmakers’ Victims. His other published works have examined Rwandan\, Sudanese\, Belgian and Equatorial Guinean political history\, the mythologies that perpetuate conflict; elections and governance in post-trauma societies; and the rehabilitation of former slaves and child soldiers. He and his wife Connie live in Berks County.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/dr-randall-fegley/
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SUMMARY:Captain Paul Tortora\, USN
DESCRIPTION:For video playback\, click\nHERE \nCyber Security\nCAPTAIN Paul Tortora\, USN (ret)\, is currently the Director of the Center for Cyber Security Studies and the first Chair of the new Cyber Science Department at the United States Naval Academy. Paul recently retired from the Navy following a 26-year active duty career originally as a Nuclear Submarine Officer and then as a Naval Intelligence Officer. During his active service he served and deployed on two nuclear fast attack submarines\, two amphibious assault ships\, and a nuclear aircraft carrier\, conducting various operations across the globe. His ashore assignments included Director of Training at the Navy and Marine Corps Intelligence Training Command\, on the staff of the Director of Naval Intelligence\, as Naval Aide and Intelligence Officer to the Secretary of the Navy\, and with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Paul is a 1989 graduate of the Naval Academy\, where he majored in Mathematics\, minoring in Spanish. He holds a Masters of Science in Management from the University of Maryland\, and a Masters of Arts in National Security Strategy from the Naval War College. His personal awards include the Legion of Merit\, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal\, and the Meritorious Service Medal. He is a recipient of both the National Military Intelligence Association’s Vice Admiral Rufus Taylor Award for Intelligence Leadership and the Rear Admiral Edwin T. Layton Award for outstanding leadership in Naval Intelligence.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/captain-paul-tortora-usn/
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SUMMARY:Dr. Katy Oh Hassig
DESCRIPTION:Kim Jong-un’s North Korea: Old Politics\, New Economy\, and Porcupine Policy\nFor video playback\, click HERE \nDr. Kongdan (Katy) Oh Hassig is a Senior Asian Scholar at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA).  She was formerly a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Bookings Institution and a member of the political science department of the RAND Corporation and has taught courses at a number of universities.  She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations\, the Board of Directors of the United States Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific\, and she is the co-founder and former co-director of The Korea Club of Washington\, D.C.  She is co-chair of the Board of Directors of the Sejong Society in Washington\, DC. \nShe received her B.A. at Sogang University and an M.A. at Seoul National University.  She subsequently earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in Asian Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley.  She is the co-author of North Korea through the Looking Glass (2000) and The Hidden People of North Korea (2009). \nHer recent articles include “The United States between Japan and Korea\,” The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis\, June 2010\, “Kim Jong-un Inherits the Bomb\,” International Journal of Korean Unification Studies\, 2011\,  “Military Confrontation\,” Joint Force Quarterly\, February 2012\,  “The ROK President of 2013-2018: Who Should Lead the Nation at This Critical Time?” The Journal of East Asian Affairs\, Spring/ Summer 2012\, “The Costs of Korean Division and the Benefits of Korean Unification of US National Security\,” and “The Costs and Benefits of Korean Unification for the United States\,” in edited books by Korea Institute for National Unification\, respectively December 2012 and December 2013.    She served as the task leader for the US Government & Japanese Government to revise the US-Japan defense cooperation guidelines from 2013-14.  The second edition of her book\, The Hidden People of North Korea was published in April 2015.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/dr-katy-oh-hassig/
LOCATION:PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dr. Oya Dursun-Ozkanca
DESCRIPTION:Turkey’s Challenges\nDr. Oya Dursun-Ozkanca is an Associate Professor at the Department of Politics\, Philosophy\, and Legal Studies\, and the Director of the International Studies Minor at Elizabethtown College. A native of Turkey\, she received her BA in Political Science and International Relations at Bosphorus University in Istanbul\, and MA and PhD in Government at the Univesity of Texas in Austin. Her research interests include Turkish foreign policy\, tranatlantic security\, European politics\, the Balkans\, and peacebuilding missions. \nDr. Dursun-Ozkanca is the author of a number of scholarly articles in leading peer -reviewed journals. In Summer 2013\, she served as a LSEE Research on South Eastern Europe Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics\, and conducted fieldwork in Serbia and Bosnia on Turkish foreign policy in the Balkans. Her first co-authored book\, External Interventions in Civil Wars: The Role of Impact on Regional and International Organizations\, was published by Routledge in July 2013.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/dr-oya-dursun-ozkanca/
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SUMMARY:Terry Cooke
DESCRIPTION:China Comprehensively: Culturally\, Politically\, Economically\, Environmentally\, Militarily\nTerry Cooke is the Founding Director of the China Partnership of Greater Philadelphia since July 2011.The China Partnership of Greater Philadelphia (CPGP) is a non-profit organization that promotes collaboration – primarily on public/private clean technology initiatives – between Philadelphia and the People’s Republic of China. Its mission is to accelerate job creation\, attract investment\, and support clean technology business flows through strategic linkages between Greater Philadelphia and China. CPGP harnesses the Greater Philadelphia region’s exceptional academic\, government\, cultural and business resources to leverage regional and national initiatives in both countries. In July 2014\, CPGP’s work was awarded bi-national U.S. -China EcoPartnership recognition by U.S. Secretary of State Kerry and PRC State Councilor Yang at the annual high-level U.S.-China Strategic & Economic Dialogue talks. \nTerry Cooke was a 2010 Public Policy Scholar with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C.\, researching the U.S.-China clean energy relationship\, particularly the interface of technology\, policy and investment. His book Sustaining U.S.-China Cooperation in Clean Energy was launched via webcast by the Wilson Center’s Kissinger Institute in September 2012. \nFrom 2006 to 2008\, Terry was Director for Asia Corporate Partnership for the World Economic Forum. Based with the Forum’s Centre for Global Industries in New York\, Terry worked on three continents and across the Forum’s 18 industry groups to design and implement closer engagement with Asian Global 500-level firms (having annual revenues of US $16 billion and above). Building on this strategic foundation\, Forum founder Klaus Schwab presented Japanese Prime Minister Fukuda a set of “CEO Climate Policy Recommendations to G8 Leaders” (signed by 100 Chairmen and CEOs) on June 20\, 2008 while Japan hosted the annual G8 Summit Meeting. \nThe GC3 Strategy model is to build value by bringing together specialty teams and innovative technology resources\, combined with insight into the commercial dynamics that are driving investment opportunity in the changing global marketplace. \nDuring a fifteen-year career with the U.S. Foreign Commercial Service (1988-2003)\, Terry held progressively more responsible positions at U.S. Missions in Asia (Taipei\, Tokyo\, Shanghai) and Europe (Berlin)\, including being the senior commercial representative of the United States in Taiwan and Berlin and the deputy senior commercial representative in Tokyo. His work involved consensus building with the ministerial-level in host countries; with the CEO-level in industry; and with top-levels of the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government. This work required skills in complex\, cross-cultural decision-making: transactional skills in major projects and in bilateral negotiations; policy and fund-raising skills in organizing international conferences/events; and administrative skills in managing substantial budgets and staffs. Terry was nominated by the U.S Department of Commerce and the White House to the Senior Foreign Service in March 2002 and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in June 2002.
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